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· Public charity

United Way of the Desert

To break the cycle of poverty in the Coachella Valley through mobilizing the caring power of community.

$227k
Granted FY2023
11
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Human Services$399kFood & Nutrition$283kYouth Development$278kHealth$154kPhilanthropy$40kHousing & Shelter$20kCivil Rights$10kEmployment$8k
02FY2023 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $124,651, the rows itemized in this filing. The $226,901 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $102,250 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k7 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
$8,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INLAND SO CAL UNITED WAY$39,651
FAMILY SERVICES OF THE DESERT$10,000
JFK FOUNDATION$10,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CC$9,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CV$8,500
DESERT ARC$8,500
YMCA OF THE DESERT$7,500
GALILEE CENTER$7,500
MARTHAS VILLAGE & KITCHEN$7,500
DESERT CANCER FOUNDATION$6,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $533k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERT: $58k → 11%FAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERT: $38k → 11%FAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERT: $33k → 11%LIFT TO RISE: $20k → 11%FAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERT: $19k → 11%YMCA OF THE DESERT: $8k → 11%FAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERT: $7k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $44k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $29k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $23k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $18k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 11%GALILEE CENTER: $38k → 11%GALILEE CENTER: $29k → 11%GALILEE CENTER: $10k → 11%GALILEE CENTER: $8k → 11%GALILEE CENTER: $7k → 11%MARTHAS VILLAGE & KITCHEN: $48k → 11%MARTHAS VILLAGE & KITCHEN: $26k → 11%MARTHAS VILLAGE & KITCHEN: $22k → 11%MARTHAS VILLAGE & KITCHEN: $13k → 11%MARTHAS VILLAGE & KITCHEN: $9k → 11%MARTHAS VILLAGE & KITCHEN: $8k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 13 repeat orgs$117k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
7

Total granted

$1.1M
$77k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+229%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • FY
    FAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERT
    6× · 2017–2023 · $163k · revenue +18%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COACHELLA VALLEY
    6× · 2017–2023 · $146k · revenue +123%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE DESERT
    6× · 2017–2023 · $134k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • LT
    LIFT TO RISE
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +5%
  • CV
    Coachella Valley Volunteers in Medicinegraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +59%
  • DH
    DAP Health Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +472%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Children's Clinic 'Serving Children and Their Families'

TCC Family Health mission is to provide innovative, integrated, quality health care that will contribute to a healthy community, focusing on those in need and working with patients and the community as partners in their overall well-being.

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2
Community Impact Central Valley

To deliver comprehensive health and human service programs that improve the health and well-being of under-served california residents.

Health
3
Jwch Institute Inc

The specific purposes of this organization are:(a) to provide outpatient primary health service in underserved areas and/or for medically underserved populations as a community clinic. (b) to develop, promote, and manage health care…

Health
4
Central Valley Gender Health & Wellness
Civil Rights
5
Catholic Charities Diocese of San Diego

Catholic Charities provides social services and administers various governmental and social programs. Designed to meet the challenge of the ever-changing community by utilizing spiritual, human and financial resources, our programs enable…

Human Services
6
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Fresno

Respecting the presence of God among us, we serve, advocate for and empower those in need. In carrying out the social mission of the Roman Catholic Church in the Diocese of Fresno, the Organization provides food, clothing, housing support,…

Human Services
7
New Vista Ranch Inc

New vista is committed to providing people of all ages with intellectual and developmental disabilities, equitable opportunities, and supported living arrangements so that they may experience life to the fullest.

Human Services
8
Laguna Beach Community Clinic

The mission of laguna beach community clinic (lbcc) is to provide excellent medical care regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
9
Center for Community Solutions

The mission is to end relationship and sexual violence by being a catalyst for caring communities and social justice. the vision is for all people to live full, free, expressive, and empowered lives in a safe, healthy, vibrant, and…

Health
10
Feeding America Riverside San Bernardino Counties

Our mission is to alleviate hunger in the inland empire of southern california.

Food & Nutrition
11
Riverside Community Health Foundation

To improve the health and well being of the community by providing health education and outreach programs as well as grants to non-profit organizations, schools, and government agencies.

Health
12
Union Station Homeless Services

We work to end homelessness through housing solutions, supportive services, and connection to community. we advocate for equitable and just systems that ensure all individuals and families will have a safe place they can call home.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is John F Kennedy Memorial Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Dap Health Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
19/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERT: $162,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERTJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE DESERT: $133,554 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE DESERTMARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC: $125,800 · Human ServicesMARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INCGALILEE CENTER INC: $91,370 · Human ServicesGALILEE CENTER INCLIFT TO RISE: $20,000 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COACHELLA VALLEY: $146,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COACH…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CATHEDRAL CITY: $131,900 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CAT…DESERT ARC: $47,500 · OtherDESERT ARCJOHN F KENNEDY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $40,000 · OtherJOHN F KENNED…Food Now Inc: $24,500 · OtherFood Now IncCatholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties: $17,500 · OtherCatholic Char…MIZELL CENTER: $7,500 · OtherBARBARA SINATRA CHILDRENS CTR: $7,000 · OtherDESERT CANCER FOUNDATION: $34,500 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $30,000 · HealthCoachella Valley Volunteers in Medicine: $12,500 · HealthDAP Health Inc: $12,500 · HealthFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC: $89,100 · Food & NutritionINLAND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA UNITED WAY: $39,651 · PhilanthropyTHE LGBTQ COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE D: $10,000 · Civil RightsOrganizacion en California de Lideres Campesinas Inc: $7,500 · Employment
Human Services$533,224Youth Development$277,900Other$144,000Health$89,500Food & Nutrition$89,100Philanthropy$39,651Civil Rights$10,000Employment$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERT: $162,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COACHELLA VALLEY: $146,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE DESERT: $133,554 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CATHEDRAL CITY: $131,900 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetMARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC: $125,800 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetGALILEE CENTER INC: $91,370 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC: $89,100 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDESERT ARC: $47,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetINLAND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA UNITED WAY: $39,651 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDESERT CANCER FOUNDATION: $34,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFood Now Inc: $24,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLIFT TO RISE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCatholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties: $17,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCoachella Valley Volunteers in Medicine: $12,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetDAP Health Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIZELL CENTER: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOrganizacion en California de Lideres Campesinas Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Bighorn Golf Club Cha…Regional Access Proje…Inland Empire Communi…HN and Frances C Berg…Impact Through Golf F…The Champions Volunte…Houston Family Founda…Desert Community Foun…Coachella Valley Well…Food in Need of Distr…The Auen FoundationThe Grace Helen Spear…
Bighorn Golf Club Charities IncCA30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bighorn Golf Club Charities Inc · Regional Access Project Foundation · Inland Empire Community Foundation · HN and Frances C Berger Foundation · Impact Through Golf Foundation · The Champions Volunteer Foundation · Houston Family Foundation · Desert Community Foundation · Coachella Valley Wellness Foundation · Food in Need of Distribution Inc · The Auen Foundation · The Grace Helen Spearman Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization United Way of the Desert funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of the Desert. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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